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Google Promises Unlimited Cloud Storage; Then Cancels Plan; Then Tells Journalist His Life’s Work Will Be Deleted Without Enough Time To Transfer The Data (www.techdirt.com)

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[–] cyd@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If the company was run by a hallucinating AI it couldn't be any flakier.

[–] yonerboner@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I had this happen to me. They haven’t threated to delete my account yet. I have about 50TB. I built a 170TB (raw) NAS for $2000 and transferred it all, only took about a week or so to download everything on my gig fiber.

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[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm surprised they even allowed that much to be uploaded. Even if it is "unlimited", that must be against some sort of fair usage agreement.

If you need to archive over 250TB of data, you should get a tape drive.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Come on, if it's unlimited it's unlimited, not "unlimited but only if you use less than limit"

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[–] Laitinlok@lemmy.laitinlok.com 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/10/10/journalists-ask-doj-to-stop-treating-url-alterations-as-a-federal-crime/

Idk what you mean by unauthorised access to the video if you gain access to the password of the database or simply it wasn't password protected at all. Simply scrapping the site and reading html files or using the tools from the browser to scan the network connections to find the original footage is not hacking.

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago

Where is crystal storage when you need it? 😢

[–] Grofit@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

All people who think this is a good read should Google about the Bitcasa saga, that was a wild ride.

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[–] wahming@monyet.cc 3 points 2 years ago (17 children)

On one hand, Google sucks. On the other, users like this are why we can't have nice things.

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